Eyes Sayings and Quotes

Often called the windows to the soul, the eyes say it all. Whether we’re happy, tired, feeling down, or confused, it shows on our face. Say what you mean without saying a word with the wise and inspirational eyes quote below.

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Samuel Richardson

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The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Meister Eckhart

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The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Audrey Hepburn

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It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Terry Pratchett

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If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

Santosh Kalwar

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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Victor Hugo

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The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Leonardo da Vinci

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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams
are reflected....

Anna M. Uhlich.

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A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,-- Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one.

William Alger

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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden

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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Christian Nevell Bovee

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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Bob Marley

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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

Charlotte Bronte

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Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For the first time he honestly wished he could work miracles.

Toni Morrison

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The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The eyes are one of the most powerful tools a woman can have. With one look, she can relay the most intimate message. After the connection is made, words cease to exist.

Jennifer Salaiz

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The eye is the jewel of the body.

Henry David Thoreau

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want..

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Anyone can look at others' eyes, but Lovers can see
into each others' souls through the eyes

Larry Latta.

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Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them

Owen Meredith

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Sylvia Plath

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Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bill Cosby

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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

Robert Jordan

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

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If your eyes dwell in your heart; then your inner voice will be your congenial Guide.

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

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His eyes have made love to me all evening.

Marguerite Gautier

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut

Rupi Kaur

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For she had eyes and chose me.

William Shakespeare

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the intensity / in your eyes / burns my pen / as i write.

Sanober Khan

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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language

Martin Buber

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No one knows what it's like / To be the bad man / To be the sad man / Behind blue eyes

You are most beautiful when your eyes are glowing with kindness and joy.

Debasish Mridha

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The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.

E.E. Cummings

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My madness // See in the eyes // My love's truth // See in the eyes

Ehsan Sehgal

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Beautiful eyes are those that show the beautiful thoughts that burn below.

Ellen Palmer Allerton

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The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart; you may enter that a way!

Eugene Sue

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The eyes have one language everywhere.

George Herbert

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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

George Horace Lorimer

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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

Heraclitus

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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

James Baldwin

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Over the eyes of gladness / The lids of sorrow fall, / And the light of mirth is darkened / Under the funeral pall.

James Whitcomb Riley

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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

Joseph Joubert

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The worldling's eyes are dusty dim, / The eyes of sin are weary and cold, / The fighting boy brings home with him / The unsullied eyes of old.

Katharine Tynan

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The eyes see everything through the heart.

Katherine Center

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Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

Kelly Link

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If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

Kurt Cobain

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Through the eyes of a child, —is your heart then set free

Kurt Philip Behm

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He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

Leopold Trepper

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You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

Lorne Michaels

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There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.

Oscar Romero

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The eyes are hungry but often satiated before they see.

Otl Aicher

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The curve of your eyes embraces my heart / A ring of sweetness and dance / halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle, / And if I no longer know all I have lived through / It’s that your eyes have not always been mine.

Paul Eluard

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Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

Paulo Coehlo

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If we could see through each other's eyes you'd be surprise by the many things you may see, things you could never imagine and things you thought could never be.

Poetic Description

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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

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The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

Publilius Syrus

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

Richard Carlson

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Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Rumi

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Look into my eyes / Eyes are the windows to the soul / Look into my eyes / Eyes, oh you will know / There is no surprise / Eyes, because love is plain to see / Look into my eyes

Ryan Raddon, Finn Bjarrnson and John Hancock

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You believe what your eyes want to believe!

Santosh Kalwar

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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

Seneca The Younger

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The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

Sextus Propertius

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The eyes are black and beautiful complexion fair and sweet.

Shad Azimabadi

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The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

Sophocles

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The eyes are the landing strip to the heart.

Stan Dale

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You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Stephen Vizinczey

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If you see the sun in my eyes / It should be as no surprise / It's the light of love inside of me / Now tell me what do you see

Stevie B

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Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

Theophile Gautier

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Look deep inside the eyes of a woman, see the man you want to be.

Tim McGraw

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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

Willa Cather

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The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

William Law

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A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

William Shakespeare

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